Well, yesterday I had my car out for a drive and when I switched my headlights on my dash lights didn't come on. I went home and parked it thinking I had blown a fuse. This morning I looked at it and I blew a 15A fuse under the dash labeled "Tail". Sure enough, the tail lights were also not working, but the brake lights worked fine. I replaced the fuse and it blew again. Just to make sure I tried another fuse and that one blew as well. I am assuming the dash lights run off the same fuse.

I think I must have caused a short somewhere near my tail lights last week when I had the interior panels off in the back of the car to fix my power antenna and my gas door. I can't ever remember touching any tail light wires, but they did work fine before I did this.

My question is, are there any common places where this can happen? Has this happened to anyone else before? I'm going to take the panels off again *sigh* tonight to poke around, but any info I can get before I start would help a lot! Thanks.

 

maybe when you put it back together you pinches a power wire against a body panel and ground it.

 

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Yeah, it sounds just like an exposed wire getting grounded on the body. I had this problem on my Supra last year, damn thing kept blowing fuses and it took me forever to find the wire in the dash that was causing it. But just like you I only had the problem after doing some work, retrace your steps and I bet you will find the problem.

Matt
93 SSM

 

did you ever find this problem? i was driving and it went out, have not touched anything electrical in the prior 24hr

 

ok well i check the tail lights, pull all the bulbs and tryed a new fuse and it still blew so its not the bulbs or rear socket, whats next?

 

i've got the same problem...i'm hunting for it now.

 

Found mine...the ash tray bulb had a splice in it and it was grounding out to the chassis....all fixed :-D